Researcher. Coder. Crypto, DeFi, AI/ML, quantum. UI, visualization, recommenders, NLP, autonomous vehicles.
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Don Beaver retweeted
A 37-mile trail challenge lands people half their age in an ambulance. But these senior citizens won’t stop until they finish. on.wsj.com/3I0m0JK
STROBE: Streaming Threshold Random Beacons
Appearing today at AFT 2023.
It's all about how to flip fair coins robustly and verifiably in public - without needing costly consensus algorithms or zero-knowledge proofs.
drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/vollt…
Don Beaver retweeted
As usual it is really cool to do a podcast with @AnnaRRose ....
zeroknowledge.fm/295-2/
Interesting abstract, scary coverage. Why does it cost me $32 to read a research paper likely funded by US taxes? nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
Spent my youth adding semicolons to make C happy.
Spending my dotage removing semicolons to make Rust happy. Definitely getting rustier with age.
Don Beaver retweeted
Hello, today we are disclosing two critical trusted-party vulnerabilities in the LayerZero smart contracts. These issues allow the LayerZero team to completely bypass the Oracle and Relayer for most applications (including stargate).
prestwich.substack.com/p/zer…
Don Beaver retweeted
Incredible presentation by Kevin Bowers on Firedancer, HPC in trading environments and Jump’s motivations in building crypto infrastructure.
youtu.be/oNRSeEATOFw
Don Beaver retweeted
8/ We’re excited to contribute to a ZK future!
Reach out to @rahulmaganti_, @nickraystalder, @0x0ece, and @donbeaver if you want to chat about hardware acceleration and ZKs.
Don Beaver retweeted
1/ Accelerating Multi-scalar Multiplications (MSMs) is essential to making ZKPs fast and cheap.
We’re excited to share a radical improvement in MSM hardware acceleration: jumpcrypto.com/accelerating-…
CycloneMSM: A Novel Architecture for Accelerating MSMs on FPGA
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Don Beaver retweeted
Fantastic result from the @jump_ team (and @donbeaver ?) 👏
hardware is a game-changer for ZKPs.
#ePrint FPGA Acceleration of Multi-Scalar Multiplication: CycloneMSM: K Aasaraai, D Beaver, E Cesena, R Maganti, N Stalder, J Varela ia.cr/2022/1396
Don Beaver retweeted
History Generation: a new property for decentralized randomness. Unlike DRAND and co, you only need the latest beacon to produce the whole history down to genesis, favoring light client constructions, i.e. for beacon streams in UDP games (lost packets).
eprint.iacr.org/2021/1643